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IN physiology our task is to study the nature of the phenomena which characterise normal life, as shown in the inthvidual organism. At the outset it would perhas seem presumption on our part to turn our attention to what we must admit to be the most complicated and highly-developed organism, namely, man, before we have been able to elucidate at least the main features of the life-process of more lowly forms; should we not do better to argue from the simple to the complex?
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DOUGLAS, C. The Development of Human Physiology1. Nature 120, 845–848 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120845a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120845a0